Hello, goodbye and thank you in Romanian

It was great to be at Parc Eglos School in Helston today for workshops with Years 2 and 3. We ran an assembly about migration and journeys – Mirabela Robatzchi, originally from Romania, helped me brilliantly as ever. We then went into classrooms to do the apparently impossible i.e. teach a few phrases of Romanian […]

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Free Holiday Club in Camborne

Very pleased to be at T2M Holiday Programme today (20 December 2021) at All Saints’ Church, Roskear, with our suitcases real and cardboard to talk about journeys and the issues around them as part of I PACKED THIS MYSELF. About 30 Primary School aged children attended. Through the T2M Holiday Programme, local authorities are providing […]

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Latest work on migration

A real treasure trove of ideas and drawings from children at St John’s Catholic Primary School, Camborne, west Cornwall. We visited the school earlier in November (2021) to talk about migration – people on the move. Anyone might need to leave home to find work. We left cardboard cut-out suitcases with them and asked them […]

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Bags carried by the homeless

  We actually met Candy as part of our work on migration. We’ve been looking at suitcases and bags carried by people on the move – migrants, whether economic migrants or simply people travelling long distances and crossing borders to make a new life elsewhere. But we realised other people too pack bags to take […]

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Remembrance Day 2021

A fantastic turnout in Camborne this morning to honour the town’s war dead. An impressive parade led by Camborne Town Band ending at the church where wreaths were laid. Click on this link to hear the Band playing: https://youtu.be/j4S7j0IkYrA Alison Pooley, granddaughter of Dolcoath miner Leslie Pentecost who served in the 25th Field Ambulance with […]

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World War One centenary poetry from Hayle

This poetry was written in autumn 2018 in Hayle, Cornwall, a century after the guns finally fell silent on the Western Front. Click here to download Keen writers – some experienced, some trying their hand for the first time – gathered at three workshops led by respected local author Jenny Alexander. They created poems to […]

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